What does it take to abandon the structure of your life and jump into an abyss of possibility and uncertainty? “The creative adult is the child who survived,” Dave Itzkoff writes as the epigraph to...

To operate within a society, one typically operates within an economy as well. Each is somewhat — if not extensively or totally — conflated in such a way as to make participation in either necessary...

Reactions were wide-ranging when Kim Kardashian West revealed her husband’s new project, Jesus is King, the follow-up to his eighth studio album Ye. Twitter users both praised and berated Kim and Kanye...

About a week ago, I found myself at a birthday party for a friend of my parents. Given the nature of the event, I was one of the only young people within a sea of middle-aged adults, subsequently making...

I imagine that grappling with how best to approach pedagogy characterizes a great amount of discussion on university campuses. Conversations about what themes to emphasize and what vocabulary to underscore...

What does it mean to live in a city? How does it define the texture of human experience? Mark Twain said, “Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage — a village is the place....

As the Democratic presidential primary campaign heated up earlier this year, I have to admit that I was not, at first, convinced by Elizabeth Warren. First, I was concerned when last fall, she promoted...

When Avengers: Endgame, a veritable smorgasbord of successful franchises, was released on April 26 of this year, it dominated the box office in both domestic and foreign markets. As the summer progressed,...

With each generation, the center of an elec- tion’s agenda surrounds something pressing to that era. For the 1930s, it was what to do about the Great Depression and the impending World War. In the 1970s...

While studying in France this past summer, I was determined to put my French skills to the test. Whether ordering a drink at a bar or saying hi to fellow classmates, I tried my best to avoid using English....

Last August, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden decided not to attend school until that year’s general parliamentary elections in order to bring attention to the wildfires and heat waves that...

In the present day, we see before us a seemingly idiotic and blasphemous dialect of English spoken among the general population. It is dictated with a degree of simplicity, brevity, but primarily stupidity...